Researchers Complain Opus Safety Guardrails Are Overly Trigger-Happy

Security researchers including Dimitris Papailiopoulos report that Opus's safety guardrails are overly sensitive, blocking even simple questions about published reports and requests to implement toy versions of arXiv papers.

2026-11-06 ~ 2026-11-06 · 3 related posts

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